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Couple accused of teen's murder
15/07/2007 20:33 - (SA)
Johannesburg - A Leeu-Gamka husband and wife, initially arrested for child abandonment after the body of a 13-year-old was found in a water-tank, have been charged with murder.
They are scheduled to appear in the Prince Albert's Magistrate's Court on Monday.
Western Cape police spokesperson Ntobeko Mangqwengqwe said on Sunday this development followed preliminary investigations after the discovery of the decomposed body of Elizabeth Martiens.
She went missing on April 14. Nine missing girls murdered
Elizabeth was one of nine young girls to have been found dead around South Africa in the last seven months, after they had been reported missing.
The weekend also saw the funeral of two-year-old Sonja Brown, found in a manhole near her Rawsonville home on July 2.
The girl was found dead three days after she had been reported missing.
Nine days before Sonja's body was found, the body of six-year-old Micaela Rossouw was found in a box under a bed in the backyard shack of a neighbour's house in Swellendam.
Micaela had last been seen alive on June 10, when she had been playing with friends. Two Modimole murders
Eight-year-old Refilwe Ringane's decomposed body was found in a
field in Modimolle in Limpopo on June 17. She was reported missing on
June 12 after she'd been sent to a shop by her brother.
Also in Modimolle, the body of another eight-year-old was
found about a month earlier, on April 13.
The girl was found strangled in the bushes after she was reported
missing the day before. She and a six-year-old neighbour were
confronted by an unknown man while on their way to her uncle's home in Flora
Park. The younger child managed to escape, but the older girl was kidnapped.
The body of an eight-year-old girl was found in a field at Breipaal
near Douglas in the Northern Cape on April 4, three days after she went
missing. She had been beaten with a blunt object.
The girl had been sent to buy groceries by her parents on April 1 and did not
return home. Body wrapped in sheep skin
On March 12, the body of six-year-old Naledi Ndebele was found
wrapped in sheep skin under a bush in Brandfort in the Free State.
Naledi was reported missing by her grandmother the day before her body was found, when she did not return from playing at a neighbour's home.
The body of Anastacia Wiese, 11, was found at her mother's Mitchell's Plain home on March 11, after she had been reported missing on Friday
March 9. Thrown off cliff
On January 10, the body of ten-year-old Londi Mdunge was found after
she had been raped and apparently thrown off a cliff in Durban's
Molweni area.
Londi's mutilated body was found at the foot of a cliff overlooking the Inanda Dam the day after she was reported missing. She had been
collecting mangoes with her cousin when she disappeared.
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